Allegro - "recently viewed"

Hello.

Hyde park is probably the most suitable for this topic.

I have such an observation - Allegro has for a long time the "recently viewed" bar, which shows auctions that have been recently viewed by the user (also not logged in). The history of these views could never be deleted by deleting the history, cookies, etc. from the browser level. This, however, is not the topic of the post.

Recently, I have noticed that in "recently viewed" there are items of household members (no one is logged in to Allegro on any computer), who do not have access to my computer, but use Allegro on their PC. The computers are on the same network and, after all, they run on a shared Internet IP. Of course, other household members can also see other people's browsing on their computers. There are no secrets here, but disgust from the user's point of view - there is.

Do you have similar observations - that Allegro assigns browsing to a specific IP address and not to a computer? If that's true, then it's a serious setback on their part - but it wasn't like that before.

Ps
This happens regardless of the browser used.

Buddy, this situation has been going on for quite a long time.
Is it legal?
Difficult question.

It worries me very much. There is no problem if you are logged in all the time on Allegro - but this is not a solution.

You are probably wondering who of the household members was browsing the erotic section.

ociz wrote:

You are probably wondering who of the household members was browsing the erotic section.

Hah, no, probably users wouldn't do it, not all sections are visible :D

Gentlemen, I have another shocking observation. At work, I have a computer with Internet access and I logged in on Allegro only once in my life (without remembering passwords, etc.) - somewhere around 2015. After dealing with the required matters, I logged out of the account and never logged in again (I am still logged out).

Today, out of curiosity, I checked - and what? - I found on my PC at work (in "recently viewed") products that I was browsing the day before yesterday at home, being logged in to my Allegro account. This is apparently not even about IP ...

I was interested in the topic, so I figured it out.
This is in the cookies, but removing them from the browser (firefox for me) has no effect. I deleted the Allegro CCleanerem cookies and voila, there is no browsing history on the Allegro.
But after logging in and logging out of Allegro, it is back.

For me, cleaning up from Firefox is effective, but that's not the point. After clearing cookies, you have to reconfigure Google's privacy policy, and this is already time-consuming.

I found the AlleBlock add-on for Adblock - it works, completely removes all ads from Allegro, so there are no graphics on the home page I like it - but it's still not a solution. In fact, the only solution would be for Allegro to stop such practices - but they probably have some $$$ ...

Grzegorz S. wrote:

This is in the cookies, but removing them from the browser (firefox for me) has no effect.

Generally, the case is that a person wastes a lot of life confirming naive messages of cookie acceptance, and this is just a part of places where it is possible to throw up potentially spy throws.

Allegro, apart from cookies, places at least cards (that's what I can see at the moment) in two other, less well-known places. It is true that I did not specifically track the one responsible for "recently viewed", but maybe someone else will. My situation is a bit complicated with anti-advertising additions, so that in my case, those recently viewed behave strangely.

From "bare" Firefox it is possible to get to two such potential places and selectively delete these various foundlings. It is enough to press F12 while on the Allegro website and select Storage on the panel that appears. By clicking on the left side, we have an entry to Allegro cookies, which we can selectively delete, but also access to the normally invisible "Local Storage" in which, for example, Allegro stores, among others shopping cart data.
If after F12 on the panel beam there is no "Storage" option (or a similar one, because I am using English FF), then running this option is the gear to the right of the beam and tagging this tool in the first column.

The second place where Allegro obviously stores some of its data is Flash Player, or more precisely, its settings.
To crash it, you just need to go to Documents and Settings in your profile, and from Application Data \ Macromedia \ Flash Player to delete folders. All or more selectively.

Ture11 wrote:

Today, out of curiosity, I checked - and what? - I found on my PC at work (in "recently viewed") products that I was browsing the day before yesterday at home, being logged in to my Allegro account. This is apparently not even about IP ...

Ooooh ..
And don't you have a service enabled on these computers, e.g. synchronization of loads, etc., settings? Some Sync or something.
Then the matter would be more rational.

rb401 wrote:

Ooooh ..
And don't you have a service enabled on these computers, e.g. synchronization of loads, etc., settings? Some Sync or something.
Then the matter would be more rational.

None of this, I avoid any integration with the browser, especially at work.

Ture11 wrote:

None of this, I avoid any integration with the browser, especially at work.

If we reject the spell as an explanation, it is evident here that the fact of logging in in 2015. left a permanent mark on this computer that Allegro was now able to read and find out that it was you.
Looking at Allegro cookies, you can see that some of them have a life span of up to 100 years. And if not cookies, then Local Storage, which is probably indefinite. So here is a rational explanation.

Now I have another question for you. Have you ever logged into Allegro on those computers where you have recently viewed leaks?

In general, it is the policy of this fierce remembrance about Allegro users that certainly makes a lot of practical sense for Allegro (e.g. targeting fraudsters). And maybe the problem you are talking about is just a side effect of this policy.

rb401 wrote:

Have you ever logged into Allegro on those computers where you have recently viewed leaks?

Yes, the problem is that not only me - e.g. my father logged into his computer, mother's computer and my computer - and as a result I can see the history from my mother's + father's computers.

Ture11 wrote:

Yes, the problem is that not only me - e.g. my father logged into his computer, mother's computer and my computer - and as a result I can see the history from my mother's + father's computers.

So you can see here that Allegro "marks" each computer so that their system knows everyone logged in to it. Although it is rational, revealing it by connecting it to the story is, in my opinion, an obvious blunder of programmers.
So I think the best thing in this situation is to report it to Allegro as soon as possible using the form on the website.
They even read it and reply pretty quickly. The more so as it actually concerns their security mechanisms. And here they inadvertently reveal themselves and give the fraudsters a test platform for free.

From my experience, I will add a hint that it is better to avoid digressions in the Allegro application and to report the problem strictly.
Some time ago I reported when the option that was important to me disappeared and I wanted to be courteous and wrote in the form "everything is ok just ...".
I got a response dripping with narcissism about how happy they are that I am happy with them etc. And at the end, it was only incidentally added that there is no option and there will be no option, because few people used it .

And by the way, you can try to selectively remove these allegral foundlings from your computers, e.g. using the F12 method, as I wrote above.